Is your bike an extension of your body?

**BMWST?** · 26th June 2009, 14:40

a big part is "muscle" memory.Our body has an extremely accurate motor system.When you walk up a flight of stairs your brain registers how high each step is.Then you watch someone else walk up the stairs and the feet barely raise high enough to clear the next tread.Its in yer memory.
The old saying,you never forget how to ride a bike.When i got the PD i hadnt ridden a bike for at least 15 years....after a very short pause.....which side is the gear shift,i was off and all the required inputs just happenned without real thought.

**Ixion** · 26th June 2009, 14:40

So, putting this into the context of chicks and vibrators ................ ?

**Winston001** · 26th June 2009, 14:51

Originally Posted by James Deuce

How dare you insult my bike like that!

Fair enough James, in your case, the bike has the brain and is trying to detach the carcase on top.

**Winston001** · 26th June 2009, 14:59

Originally Posted by BMWST?

a big part is "muscle" memory.Our body has an extremely accurate motor system.When you walk up a flight of stairs your brain registers how high each step is.Then you watch someone else walk up the stairs and the feet barely raise high enough to clear the next tread.Its in yer memory.

The old saying,you never forget how to ride a bike.....

Mmmm.....but stairs have a common ratio of rise:run which has existed since the Egyptians. So once our brains understand the standard gaps in stairs, they adjust our steps for whatever stair slope is encountered.

**Winston001** · 26th June 2009, 15:03

Originally Posted by NOWOOL

Says a lot about the state of academia if it needs a study to prove the obvious.

Well that's the good thing about scientific research - it doesn't assume "common sense or common knowledge". Research tests ideas and from time to time discovers counter-intuitive stuff. Someone else can find that.

Its said that we know more about the dark side of the moon than we do about the human brain.

**bogan** · 26th June 2009, 15:06

road bike, most of the way to becoming extension of my body, dirt bike, not so much.

**BMWST?** · 26th June 2009, 15:10

Originally Posted by Winston001

Mmmm.....but stairs have a common ratio of rise:run which has existed since the Egyptians. So once our brains understand the standard gaps in stairs, they adjust our steps for whatever stair slope is encountered.

they are supposed to have but a lot do not comply the best way of describing it is how easily you can negotiate a set of difficult stairs compared to someone not so familiar with them